The steaming pile of suck that was The Deep End has not deterred producers from trying to bring our little slice of heaven to television.
Per Deadline Hollywood:
Gabriel Macht has closed a deal to star opposite Patrick J. Adams in USA Network’s pilot A Legal Mind. The pilot centers on Mike Ross (Adams), a brilliant but unmotivated college student who gets recruited by a Harvey Specter (Macht), a lawyer at top Manhattan corporate law firm despite not having a law degree. He has to use his book and street smarts and hustling skills to keep the charade. The project has a two-male-lead setup in the vein of the network’s series White Collar. ICM-repped Macht will next be seen in Ed Zwick’s Love and Other Drugs.
Among Macht’s 28 IMDB credits is a single-episode apperance on Beverly Hills 90210 and a bunch of other stuff we’ve never seen. Adams has a similarly unrecognizable opus (at least to us).
We’ve also Quick Shucked developments on a couple of other pending legal dramas: Alfred Molina joined the cast of Law & Order: LA, joining Skeet Ulrich; and NBC is working on “Harry’s Law,” starring Nate Corddry and Kathy Bates.
Update: We forgot to mention the rework of The Firm.
